Slog - Comments on Plain Dealing? I Don't Think So: A Tough Critic Silenced in Clevelandhttp://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr
Donald Rosenberg, the Cleveland Plain Dealer classical music critic who has been covering the venerable Cleveland Orchestra for 28 years, has been removed from his beat. Removing a critic from his beat after 28 years is tantamount to firing him. He's been reassigned to general "arts and entertainment reporter" and the paper is refusing to explain itself, though in Rosenberg's account, he was called into the editor's office and summarily "reassigned" after she accused him of "attacking" the orchestra. It's true that Rosenberg was deeply critical of the orchestra's current conductor, Franz Welser-Möst. It's also true that the editor who...Copyright 2008Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:57:00 -0800Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:10:17 -0800http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssComment by ZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzWhat an utterly fascinating you must lead.

Warning, kids : attempting to "write sbout art" for a prolonged period of time will indeed make you this crushingly dull.

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http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150173ArtsThu, 25 Sep 2008 09:40:25 -0800Comment by From OhioThe Cleveland Orchestra has been firing many long time employees as well. It is a toxic environment there. The story is not as much the Plain Dealer as it is the orchestra.]]>From Ohiohttp://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150178
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150178ArtsThu, 25 Sep 2008 09:44:03 -0800Comment by S-LoThat's because the paper name is being changed to the Palin Dealer and their actions and policies must reflect that.]]>S-Lohttp://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150191
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150191ArtsThu, 25 Sep 2008 09:55:14 -0800Comment by TiktokDamn--there goes Cleveland's artistic reputation.]]>Tiktokhttp://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150195
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150195ArtsThu, 25 Sep 2008 10:03:01 -0800Comment by David@6 - You may scoff, but the Cleveland Orchestra is one of the Big 5 orchestras, one of the most important classical music institutions in the country:

What a sad, sad read. It's this sort of back-room politics that drags these institutions down, and, along with the depressing lack of new music programming, is one reason why I just don't bother to attend orchestra concerts anymore.

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http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150203ArtsThu, 25 Sep 2008 10:05:34 -0800Comment by ZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzFuck right back off yourself, crybaby. It's dopes like you that make dopes like Jen think they serve some "purpose".]]>Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzhttp://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150232
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150232ArtsThu, 25 Sep 2008 10:31:20 -0800Comment by Billy the CidReally, Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. You know it deep down inside—you're an idiot.]]>Billy the Cidhttp://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150248
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150248ArtsThu, 25 Sep 2008 10:42:30 -0800Comment by Joe M@1 & @8:
Yes, well, that's the sort of blinkered, philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome, spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss for the struggling artist. You excrement! You whining, hypocritical toadies, with your colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding Masonic secret handshakes!]]>Joe Mhttp://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150253
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150253ArtsThu, 25 Sep 2008 10:47:44 -0800Comment by johnHa, like THIS is going to embarrass Cleveland. Let's all go to the Flats! Go Yeomen!]]>johnhttp://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150381
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/plain_dealing_i_dont_think_so_a_tough_cr#c1150381ArtsThu, 25 Sep 2008 12:23:10 -0800Comment by ZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzNo, Billy, deep down, I know somebody that writes the turgid crap that the (cough) esteemed Ms. Graves writes is an idiot, trumped only by someone who thinks she's not one.

And @10 - oooh, you can Google Monty Python sketches. Isn't he a CLEVER little boy - do you like your rattle? Oooh, can you talk, can you talk?